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Good evening. A family of travellers who conned up to | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
�1million from vulnerable pensioners have been jailed. Five | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
members of the Price family, whose last address was a caravan site in | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Lincolnshire, overcharged elderly victims in North Yorkshire and | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
Cumbria for roofing and gardening jobs. Richard Thomas has the story. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Thirsk in North Yorkshire, a picturesque market town. For many, | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
a place to retire and enjoy a quiet life. For one family Thirsk had a | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
different attraction, its wealthy elderly population, seen as a rich | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
pickings for the Price's. Over a four-year period this was a place | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
where many people fell victim to the Price's rooffing and gardening | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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scam. �52,000 from one woman alone. They basically cold-called old | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
people and tell them they roof is damaged, and work needs to be done. | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
Here is the action, filmed as part of the investigation. David Price | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Senior is sawing furs, this earned him a �300, not a bad price, except | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
he dumps the branches in the trees rather than taking away. Here he is | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
again, clearing away shrubs. This cost the homeowner �200. There were | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
dozens more. When he told me how much it was, I told him I was | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
shocked, not as much as this. I had been conned. When he started | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
shouting, by God I was frightened. He kept shouting, he wanted more | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
money. North Yorkshire Police's investigation was called Operation | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Violet, it is one of their biggest investigations. They took hundreds | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
of statements. They would change their name, they would change their | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
business names. They would wear hats, and flat caps to change their | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
appearance. The true scale of this con will never be uncovered. It is | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
thought the number of victims could be in the hundreds. Too many to | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
question about what was done. Even when the Price family had been | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
sentenced, there are plenty of more unscrupulous tradesmen to fill | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
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BT has announced it's to create up to 280 new jobs at its new complex | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
in South Shields. BT is expanding its flagship ten and a half million | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
pounds complex at Harton Staithes. The company will begin recruiting | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
for the call centre jobs later this month and expects to have the new | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
staff in place by November. The news was welcomed by Ian Malcolm, | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
leader of South Tyneside Council. We desperately needed jobs, we said | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
all along by developing a partnership with BT it will act as | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
a catalyst to bring new employment to South Shields, and help | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
regenerate the North Bank. The Great North Museum in Newcastle | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
is hosting the largest ever UK exhibition of ancient Egyptian | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
artifacts on loan from the British Museum. The "Pharaoh:the king of | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Egypt exhibition" contain priceless objects which span over three | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
millenia of ancient Egyptian history. Its made up of one hundred | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
and thirty objects from tiny sculptures to giant tomb guardians. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
I think it is really important for the people of the north-east to see | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
the national collections. They come from the British Museum, they | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
belong to Britain. Just having this fantastic partnership with the | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
British Museum is letting us show them to local people, it is a great | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
a thrill. Rothbury's traditional Music | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Festival starts today. It runs until Sunday. And the Duke and | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Duchess of Northumberland will be attending tomorrow for the launch | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
of a CD of the late Northumbrian of a CD of the late Northumbrian | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
piper Tom Matthews' music. Let's take a look at the weather. | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
Cooler, outbreaks of showers. Plenty of rain tonight. It is going | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
to be a warm night, minimun temperatures of 14 Celsius. First | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
thing tomorrow the the rain will be with us again, it will disburse as | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
we go through the day. The weekend we go through the day. The weekend | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
is going to be on the wet side. That's all from our shorter than | :04:45. | :04:48. |